WOTM 41 First Spoiler - 1 AD

[babybluepants]

WOTM 41 First Spoiler 1AD

How is your game going?

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[ZPV]

Up to 1AD, I focused on maxing out my island, and didn't do the best job of it, but it could have been worse.

Settled in place.
Early tech: Agr-AH-BW-Wheel-Myst-Pottery-Writing. Academy 1360BC
I built the Oracle for Civil Service in 1240BC.
York was 1 south of the marble, Hastings 1 east of the silver to grab both seafood, and Nottingham on the stone, to work the horses. Perhaps this should have been 1 west, to grow another cottage for London.

I (slightly) later built Canterbury 1 south of the NE Corn, and Coventry down in the jungle on the southern dyes to maximise production capability.

In the capital, I focused on GPP-producing wonders, while the ring of nearby cities worked the cottages - I built the Pyramids, the Great Library, the Temple of Artemis, and National Epic by 500BC, and Oxford will come shortly after 1AD.

I captured Dublin with swords in 125BC.

Where the game will go from here, I'm wasn't sure. Probably space. I'll talk more about that in the final spoiler.

With hindsight and more focus, I could already have had Oxford, more population all around, etc. by now.

 

[Ronnie1]

I settled in place and was very happy with the starting location. Research went AG > AH > Writing > Alpha (started) but had to throw in a few more worker techs to keep the guys working before I could trade for all the rest.

York was founded on the stone in 2400bc, Nottingham was founded on the marble in
1680bc, Hastings was founded on the southern of the 2 dyes in 1080bc, and Canterbury was founded 3E of Nottingham in 550bc. That was all for the home island.

I built Oracle in Nottingham for a CS Sling in 1000bc, Pyramids in London in 725bc, GLibrary in York in 425bc and the NE here also.

Catherine DoWed in 125bc and landed 2 Archers in the forest east of York. I upgraded my defending warrior to an axe and she was reduced to pillaging the road and the horses before the offending archers were executed. I then made a normal "version" mistake and had a loaded galley in an "ocean" square killed by a Trireme, forgetting that rivals can enter your ocean squares in Warlords. I quickly whip up a few Triremes for defense.

At 1 AD I am researching Nationalism with an eye on taking MT from Liberalism and then riding my Cavs through the European continent in grand fashion!

 

[nocho]

Settled in place and also went wonder-hogging. Built virtually all early wonders apart from ToA and GW (does it even exist in Warlords, I can't remember ). Seeing that we were on an island that was not as inhospitable as the intro text had me think, I thought the GLH would be important, so got that one and Colossus was even rushed with a GE I got from the mids. Of course forgot to switch to rep when I got the mids for a good number of turns, so that was a nice waste. Thought that trying for an Oracle sling for CS would be risky so settled for CoL. Also popped some priests early on that settled in the cap. With all the goodies and the settled priests had a pretty high slider throughout and a nice tech pace. By 1 AD (or thereabouts, I'm a bit further already) I had 7 cities settled and Dublin conquered. Was lucky to unlock HE.

Like Ronnie the plan is to lib MT and conquer Europe. Amazing that in warlords you get cavs already at MT without rifling. Good thing they pushed that back a bit in BtS.

 

[MarleysGh0st]

Well, I was a little slower than the others who have reported, but my strategy was similar. I settled in place, by 1 AD I had six cities on the island, but hadn't yet captured Dublin. Someone beat me to the GLH, but I did have Stonehenge, the Oracle (with the CS sling), the Colossus, the Great Library and Chichen Itza. A GP and GE have settled in London, boosting its production.

Louis is at war with Bismarck, but I plan to cross the channel with Catherine as my first target.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Challenger Saved Game

I settled in place due to the revealed Coast (thanks) and due to my Warrior not revealing any further seafood. Had the coast not come pre-revealed, I likely would have gone off in search of seafood, so that was a fairly-done part, bbp.

I did manage to build The Great Lighthouse but only got almost near full Failure Gold on both The Pyramids and The Oracle.

After also missing The Parthenon, I decided that I'd whip The Great Library and stop going after Wonders.

The starting island was very generous and if one focused on founding Religions, it could be a pretty fun Cultural Victory game.

At 1 AD, I was close to having Astronomy but goofed it up by building The National Epic, which gave me a Great Artist, so Astronomy will be delayed until my next Great Scientist arrives (roughly 8 turns or there-abouts).

I had missed out on founding a City to the south-east around the Stone for quite a while since I needed to build an Axeman to deal with a Barb Archer that had spawned there.

I built an early Work Boat explorer but I ended up netting him so I had to rebuild another one later when I could find time between my Wonder-chasing build items.

 

[Deckhand]

Very similar game to those above. Went Wonder and Religion hogging.
Had trouble with a barb archer in the NE and lost 2 warriors in 2600 and 2520.

London, SIP, 4000
York, on Stone, 2440 [would have been Marble but barb caused change in plans]
Nottingham, on Marble, 1880
Hastings, 3E of Nottinghham, between iron, fish, corn, 725
Canterbury, 350 BC, 3E of Dublin, on the hill [hoped to get cultural pressure on Ireland, but Holy City became Hastings]

Agr-AH-Wheel-Pottery-Myst-Poly-BW-Writing IIRC
Cathy became Hindu and we are BFF.

Hinduism, 2560, London
Christianity, 700, Nottingham (marble) [Great Prophet)
Confucianism, 350, Hastings

Oracle, 1680, London (metal casting)
Colossus, 575, York
Great Library, 500, London
Pyramids, 200, London, (Great Engineer)
Temple of Artimis, 175, York

Kashi Vishwanath, 425, London (Great Prophet)
National Epic, 250, London

Settled Great Prophets and a Great Scientist
All dates above are B.C.

Also planning to take MT from Liberalism.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Pyramids, 200, London, (Great Engineer)

Say, what? So late? The Pyramids were completed 2 turns after Stonehenge was constructed in my game (both built by AIs)!

 

[Deckhand]

Pyramids, 200, London, (Great Engineer)

Say, what? So late? The Pyramids were completed 2 turns after Stonehenge was constructed in my game (both built by AIs)!

Guess I made the right decision to spend the unexpected GE on them. I had started them a turn or 2 before I got the GE.

Wonders built by AIs in the BC's:
Great Wall, Germany, 1120
Stonehenge, Russia, 725
Great LightHouse, France, 150
The Hanging Gardens, France, 50

 

[Falabello]

1 AD:

- 6 cities (all founded) - pop 27 / treasury 7 / 0gpt at 70% - Feudalism (10 turns)

The beginning:

- Warrior 1NW / Settler SIP
- Worker / Warrior / Settler
- Agric / Wheel / Pott / BW / Myst / Medit / Priest / Writing / Sailing... +10 techs till Monarch...
- The Oracle - CoL and Confuc (1360 BC) / lost Stonehenge by 1t / Chichen Itza (300 BC) / The Temple of Artemis (25 BC)
- Great Prophet in London (550 BC)

Cities:

- York NE - farm (2520 BC)
- Nottingham N - stone, crab, silver, marble (1120 BC)
- Hastings SE - stone, crab, horse (775 BC)
- Canterbury SW - pig, fish, 2 dye (525 BC)
- Coventry NW - marble, crab (250 BC)

Observations:

- I met all 4 AI's and no one trade technologies
- Louis XIV and Isabella closed borders
- Catherine and Bismarck opened borders
- At my West is this a barbarian island?

Intencion:

- The first one was Domination. Now I'll try a peacefully Space Race...

 

[zamint3]

I built the Oracle for Civil Service in 1240BC.

I built Oracle in Nottingham for a CS Sling in 1000bc

In my game France built the Oracle in 1320BC

 

[Htadus]

Is there a restriction on talking about all the AI in this game? I swear I only used a WB to snoop.

EDIT:

SIP. Nice European map. Worker first.
Founded 7 Cities.
Low on Workers
Built Oracle, Mids, GLib and NE in capital which also has an academy. Stone city generated 2 GS's and then completed the Colosus.
Met all AI
Pissed off One lady and then Cathy early and now all is well. Has a GE, GS and the GA from Music sitting around and Another bulbed all but 4 turns of Education. Resonable tech trading.

I am not sure what I want to do but Cavs against Archers it seem right now.

 

[Deckhand]

Hurry up and wait

I need to get back to this game. Haven't played it since I posted on 1/15.

 

[bajadulce]

I feel kinda dumb after reading all of this as am probably playing the English all wrong and not taking advantage of the income/tech. Instead, I'm out bashing Ai's with stone age units lol.

AG-AH-BW-wheel-pot-sail-mas-myst-writ-pol-priest-mon

Built only 4 cities on Island:
#1 SIP
#2 Between Horses and Stone
#3 On Marble
#4 3E of Marble

Wish I had put 2nd city on stone instead and share the Corn/Food w/home city + be able to work the clam. More options with population.

Stonehenge and Oracled Feudalism which was probably a big gamble down the stretch. I'm sure some AI was burned on their last turn.

1240 BC: Declared War with Russia
1040-800 BC: Captured and razed 2 Russian cities

500 BC: Catherine became vasal after taking Moscow. Had to take city with last unit movement in stack. She had a stack of several archers one tile away coming to defend. Probably wouldn't have been able to hold city if didn't oracle Feudalism.

425 BC: Declared War on French
375-200 BC Destroyed 4 French Cities (1 where Russia had been earlier)
75 BC: Took Paris + vasal French + all their tech

Guess should focus on economy/tech and fill in the big gaps in my civ now. I have CoL. CS would prob be the right move on bigger map at this point? Maybe currency? Engineering would be the HOLY-HOLY tech right now for my cat-sword-ax army, but that's a far fetch w/ my mediocre economy. I guess I'll research Drama, declare war on these Germans and see what kind of damage can do. If it gets nasty can always mess up their economy and retreat.

Really fun map so far! I really enjoy these games much more than what the random map generates. Big thnx to the makers.